08.10.2024 - Byron Playlist (texts read & music played) Byron (1788 – 1824) on himself Derek Jacobi introduces Byron Byron: Dark Lochnagar Phil Coulter (arr.): Lochnagar Lady Caroline Lamb on Byron Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (extracts from...
27.08.2024 - The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle In this programme we introduce a book that was first published in 1995 but which seems even more relevant today. It is The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle. Born in New York in December 1946, he is the New...
27.08.2024 - Paris Olympics 1924 – 2024 Playlist Vangelis: Chariots of Fire – Titles Sally Magnusson: The Flying Scotsman – The Eric Liddell Story (2007) Duncan Hamilton: For the Glory – The Life of Eric Liddell (2016) Vangelis: Chariots of Fire –...
27.08.2024 - Taylor Swift: a Tortured Soul? Music played (all by Taylor Swift): 1. Fortnight 2. The Tortured Poets Department 3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys 4. So Long, London 5. Guilty as Sin? 6. I Can Do It with a Broken Heart 7. The Alchemy
27.08.2024 - Off to the Auvergne… Playlist (texts read and music played) 1. Georges Brassens: Chanson pour l’Auvergnat 2. Vincent d’Indy: Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français 3. Marie-Joseph Canteloube on his background 4. Canteloube: Trois...
27.08.2024 - Françoise Hardy & 1960s France Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Françoise Hardy: Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge 2. Oh, Oh Chéri 3. On se plait 4. J’ai jeté mon coeur 5. Va pas prendre un tambour 6. Avant de t’en...
04.07.2024 - Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Pink Floyd: We don’t need no education…. 2. B.F. Skinner: Education…. 3. R.S. Thomas: Children’s Song 4. Gervase Phinn: Creative Writing 5. Albert Einstein: The art of a teacher…. 6. Tim...
04.07.2024 - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan In this programme we introduce Small Things Like These (2021) by Claire Keegan, an Irish author whose stories are translated into thirty languages and have won several literary prizes. The publisher’s...
25.06.2024 - Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Erik Satie: Gymnopédie no. 1 (Jacques Loussier trio) 2. Roger McGough: Once upon a …. Love 3. Satie: Gnossiennes nos. 3, 6, 2, 4, 5 4. James Joyce: With lights of amethyst… 5. Joyce: from Dubliners...
11.06.2024 - Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Franz Kafka: ‘The Trees’ 2. Kafka in his diary, Sept 23 1912 3. ‘The Metamorphosis’ (start) 4. Stephen Spender on Kafka’s work (1935) 5. Edward Sackville-West on ‘The Trial’ (1937)...
